A new look for a prophetic text: ‘The principle of Archimedes’ in Texas
Texas Theater premieres, on February 20, fromThe principle of Archimedes,,,,,, Josep Maria Miró. Fifteen months after the reopening of the legendary cinemas on Bailèn Street, converted into a dynamic cultural space, El Texas has been located as a reference space in the promotion of Catalan authorship. Sandra Monclús, Tarrida frame, Jordi Coll and Eric Balbàs They will star in this first production of the room, directed by Leonardo V. Granadosthat fulfills one of its founding goals: revisit the corpus of contemporary Catalan dramaturgy.
Despite having triumphed around the world in almost fifty montages, having edited on 13 occasions-this year will have a new publication by Arola Edicions-and translated into twenty languages, the show had two months D ‘Exhibition (in the Beckett Room and the Villarroel) and made four unique performances on the tour of the Catalan territory. Just over 7,000 viewers have enjoyed Catalonia in this x -ray of contemporary fears, prejudices, confidence and human relationships, which the artistic team defines as a “contemporary classic that knew how to capture the fight and the deep impulses of “A society in transformation and that today still beats with a new perspective that has more strength than ever.”
A new look, ten years later
Josep Maria Mirówho directed the original montage and last year revisited the work to a production in Madrid, opted for a new direction to provide “a new look, another generation”. “The principle of Archimedes I needed a 25-year-old boy, “says Miró.
This boy is Leonardo V. Granados, who despite his youth is one of the promises of the Catalan stage leaders Magda Puyo or ofIsrael Solà to the winner Le Congress ne Marche Pas of The caloric (2023). Leonardo V. Granados acknowledges that he had felt “impressed by the formal game of the text” when he read it with eighteen, but when working it in depth he had “deeply disturbed”, as he has a background “terrible and terrifying “.
Scene image of the first production of the show in the Beckett Room with Roser Batalla and Rubén de Eguia, among others
The director explains that “although it might seem to be a matter of talking about pederasty, in the end the whole argument is an excuse to talk about the mechanisms of fear, and how it has been installed in contemporary western society” .
Contemporary fears, protococols of abuse and culture of cancellation
Josep Maria Miró acknowledges that the work is the result of “the attack on the twin towers and the globalization of terrorism”, which “forever changed the parameters of control and safety”. Granados emphasizes the reflection proposed by the text on “the anthropological mutation of fear, and how it can become one of the great control instruments of the 21st century”.
The artistic team does not obvious that in thirteen years the culture of cancellation has emerged, new policies to prevent sexual abuse and power, society has been aware of the subject and protocols have been established to protect the Victims and facilitate complaint processes. “It is a prophetic text,” joked Granados, who shows the game of perspectives in the text to confuse the audience. “The work gathers the inheritance of posmodern thinking: reality is a product of speech,” and the audience will be receiving it a story told through a disorderly and fragmented structure. “It is the way we receive the information today: fragmented and decontextualized,” says the director, who has also agreed with the author to rewrite the end to include the change of our society towards the security systems and the concept of cancellation. · LOCATION. “Anna no longer has the dilemma of doing or thinking about the monitor. Protocols at professional and educational centers are used to make no one in the situation of Anna feel alone and have to decide based on her morality or emotionality. ” Regarding the cancellation, the director thinks that “we now have more social networks than before” and that “they have become a dump of hatred, opinion and rumorology, where public storms occur that reaffirm these spaces as right -wing spaces. “
Fear of cancellation will be planned on the act of the swimming monitor, who “encounters established limits, which reality shows that they are necessary, but are confused with their defense that we can find a safer society while at the same time as it affective. ” “The characters do not stop asking” what happens “, and the actors respond,” I don’t know. ” Leonardo V. Granados emphasizes this “state of collapse and confusion and where nothing is solid and everything is liquid, of an accelerated time and in constant change and fluid The principle of Archimedes One of the great texts of contemporary Catalan authorship.
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